Word: vir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vir lepidissime, facetissime, venustissime, jocosissime, ridibundissime, te cum turba tua Leporum Facetiarum Venustatum locorum Risuum, ego . . . admitto ad gradum Doctoris in Litteris honoris causa,* said George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford to P. (for Pelham) G. (for Grenville) Wodehouse...
...last week's excursion, the corporation chartered two Pullmans, took along Mr. & Mrs. George Smith of WWVA, as chaperons. In Manhattan all paid a preliminary visit to the Fair, that night rehearsed from five till nine. They rehearsed again next morning, attended West Vir ginia Day at the Fair, that night attended Hellzapoppin, where the Steele Sisters joined the fun, sang from the stage. After Sunday's broadcast the party pulled out at 9:35 p. m., got home in time for work Monday...
...Vir honestus, status triplex mendaces...
...scribed course. Students are carefully ushered in small classes (12 to 15) through a rigid classical curriculum. Last year 35 of the school's 231 boys averaged 90 or better in the school examinations. Episcopal High School scholars make an impressive showing at University of Vir ginia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Planning to go back to teach in The High School (perhaps eventually to step into his father's shoes) is a star Yale end ('39), Flick Hoxton...
...governmental reorganization. Vastly vexed by this Presidential move was Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, not only because he had been about to take the spotlight with a reorganization plan of his own, but also because the President's program failed to encompass the economies which the Vir ginia Senator champions. The. RFC extension bill gave him his first chance to trans late his displeasure into action. He rose in the Senate to object...